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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
autocorrect .
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Examples
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But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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I responded from my iPhone which autocorrects and only lets me view one line at a time.
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Are you an iPhone user who talks (types) like a sailor and it annoys you when the device autocorrects a perfectly good insult to read "Duck you!"
Boing Boing 2008
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It just remembers what you typed and suggests and/or autocorrects for you as you type later.
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Proponents of unregulated capitalism (they prefer to call it free-market capitalism but we all now that nothing in this world is free) argue it is a self-regulating system that autocorrects (kind of like the autocorrect spelling program built into my word processing program).
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My current script hotkeys multiple desktops, autocorrects most spelling errors, and has hotkeys for various types of google searches.
[Windows] JumpWin: moving windows between dual monitors using WinKey+Enter Jonathan Aquino 2007
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I can't stand the way that Microsoft Word always autocorrects the letter "i" to a capital when I type this Algerian-born DJ's name.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Six Degrees of the Middle East 2009
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Proponents of unregulated capitalism (they prefer to call it free-market capitalism but we all now that nothing in this world is free) argue it is a self-regulating system that autocorrects (kind of like the autocorrect spelling program built into my word processing program).
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The Autocorrect feature in Excel (which drives me bonkers across the whole Office suite) has introduced irreversible errors into genetic research that is tabulated in spreadsheets, because Except autocorrects some identifiers to be dates.
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